Highbinder’s Gutsy Win and a Tragic Finish
A tale of a racehorse Highbinder trained by Ted and aided by Alice battles Scoville’s trotter. Highbinder edges ahead in a close finish, then collapses the stable, and a spectator is killed, prompting Alice to claim victory for Ted while her father demands limits.
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Alice
Jid
Scoville
Bert Scoville
Ted
Mike
Seoville
Father
Tedums
Robert Scoville
Puto
Highbinder
Seeville
Tushbinder
Lorse
Meade
Burt
Seeville’s
Highfinder
Sam Jones Routed by Hound Dog Anecdote on Steamer
Rev Bagby recalls Sam Jones on the Nourthum on the Rappahannock River last week. Ministers share salaries and church sizes, noting small numbers compared to congregations. Jones jokes about raising a pen of people and releasing a hound to sic them, provoking laughter among attendees.
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Rappahannock
Bagby
Ninth Street
Evangelist Jones
Mr. Jones
Hound Dog
Eruption Fears Roil Martinique Wildlife in April
In April the Martinique eruption unsettled cattle that behaved restlessly, snakes fled the volcanic area, and birds halted singing and abandoned trees on the mountainside, with animals showing fear weeks before the outbreak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinique
Deas
Mystery in $28,000 Express Robbery in Kentucky
J W Boatner of Memphis and J C Schnitzbaum of Fordsville were arrested amid a complex $28,000 theft from the American Express Company. Boatner claimed funds earned on horse races and sent from Deanefield to Fordsville, while Schnitzbaum reported a night robbery near Falls of Rough. Authorities call it a conspiracy to defraud the express firm.
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Nx Press Company
Deanefield
Tives Miles
Fordsville
Boather
Pordsville
Express
Sau
Boamer
Schnitzbaum
Falls of Rough
Kidnand
American Express Company
Boatner
Express Company
South America
Tariff Treaty With China Signed After Months of Negotiations
A dispatch from Treasury expert T S Sharretts to the State Department announces the tariff treaty between the United States and China has been signed on the 11th instant. He will sail home on the first steamer. The pact fulfills Boxer era peace terms guiding open door trade and access to China’s interior markets.
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T. S. Sharretts
Treasury
State Department
Washington
United States
China
Mr. Sharretts
Hay
Russians established boundary monuments in Alaska found
Telegram from Skaguay reports Lieut. Owens located two intact Russian boundary monuments and identified a destroyed third. One marker lies ten miles above Rainy Hollow and another on the Tahkeena river fifty miles from the coast as Owens surveys further sections and plans to confirm with local Indians.
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Owens
Skaguay
Samuel Weitzman
Slaines
Lieut. Owens
Rainy Hollow
Tahkeena River
Chilkat
Canada
Schwab to retire from public life indefinitely
President Charles M Schwab of the United States Steel Corporation plans to retire from active business life and move abroad for privacy. He will leave America to seek quiet surroundings, while remaining at home with his wife and parents, and he limits access to his illness.
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Pitt Ourg
Clyrles M. Seliwab
United States
Sted Cig Oeeration
Ife
America
Golden
Sehwab
Mr. Schwab
Railroad News Notes and Developments Across the Era
The report details WIA The Columbus and Southern Railway Company incorporation with 2 million capital. It notes rising comfort for women travelers, high use of New York Central mileage books, and impending colonist rates by Northern Pacific. It mentions Union Pacific contracts for a record 40 mile viaduct across Salt Lake, and Illinois Central completing a Chicago to New Orleans telephone line with over 1,045 miles of railroad exclusive long distance line.
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Columbus and Southern Railway Company
New York Central
Northern Pacific
Perry
Denver and Northwestern
Moffat
Union Pacific
Great Salt Lake
Sinois Central Railroad
Chicago
New Orleans
Illinois Central Railroad
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Highbnder
Mesh
Lumoreddy
Poliad
Alioe
Sam Jones
Virginia
Minneapolia Journal
Okay
Quebec
Ballantine
Newark
N. J
Lord Brassey
C. M. Sclwak
Daven
Crovernor
Vneteaia
Schwab
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